id:			170832
accession number:	2013.322
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.322
updated:		2025-02-09 07:07:54.988000

A charioteer riding through a rocky landscape with an entourage of footmen and musicians, page from a Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted from the Sanskrit Mahabharata and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (Persian, d. 1614), 1616–1617. Attributed to Yusuf Ali (Indian, active early 1600s). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; page: 43.5 x 28.3 cm (17 1/8 x 11 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection 2013.322

title:				A charioteer riding through a rocky landscape with an entourage of footmen and musicians, page from a Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted from the Sanskrit Mahabharata and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (Persian, d. 1614)
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creation date:			1616–1617
creation date earliest:		1616
creation date latest:		1617
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creditline:			Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
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culture:	India, Mughal, 17th century;made for Abd al-Rahim the Khan Khanan
technique:	Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art - Mughal
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Yusuf Ali (Indian, active early 1600s)  - artist

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measurements: Page: 43.5 x 28.3 cm (17 1/8 x 11 1/8 in.)
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Main gallery rotation (gallery 245): November 2, 2015 -', 'opening_date': '2015-11-02T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art (7/31/2016-10/23/2016); Art and Stories from Mughal India, cat. 50.', 'opening_date': '2016-07-31T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Collection of Hagop Kevorkian (1872–1962), New York, before 1962
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	Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures: The Property of the Kevorkian Foundation, 7 December 1970, lot 110
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	"Exhibitions.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> vol. 56, no. 5 (September/October 2016): 4.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 4 (recto).
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IMAGES

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